Wikileaks certainly has been in the news quite a lot and not for necessarily good reasons. On the surface, I think Wikileaks comes off as the people's news - giving Joe Plumber the information he deserves to have as a citizen of the United States of America. And I think to a certain extent that holds some truth to it. Still, private documents are private for a reason and I'm not cynical enough to believe it's because the government wants to trick the common peon into making poor decisions. If a government weren't at least a little secretive, it wouldn't be able to function very efficiently. It is incredible suspicious, as this article denotes, that the U.S. might be so determined to remove one man from the public eye. And given the sensitivity of some of the information released, it's hard to blame them. I believe it's less about what the public should see and more about what potential threats would use this information against us. On the other hand, Wikileaks has released information that has shamed the U.S.A. on several different accounts, something that this egotistical nation might have been in sore need of.
Whether or not Wikileak's founder's personal life is relevant to the site's mission is another question. It's a question often posed in government and politics where affairs and other scandals run rampant. In this case, I believe it is only just a little more relevant than the affairs of your basic politician: not really relevant at all. For better or worse, who people are and what they do can often be two different things.
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